Select the passage that has a more scholarly tone.

What a complex thing is education! How many circumstances that have no
connection with books and tutors contribute to the rearing of the human mind!
Through education, we aim to influence children; thus, we must look to psychology
to learn about the nature of children and to find out how we can influence them.
Psychology is therefore the basis of the science of education.
Adapted from Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete and William Henry Pyle, The Science of
Human Nature